Million Dollar Movies

Bob and Dan watch Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969), a elegiac Western about a group of outlaws who take on a murderous Mexican general. Other topics discussed: spaghetti Westerns, violence, the …

Bob and Dan welcome special guest Anya Garrett to talk about Todd Solondz's dark comedy Happiness (1998). The movie covers everything from bad breakups to child molesters. You have to see it to belie…

Bob and Dan discuss a prescient guilty pleasure, Enemy of the State (1998). Robert Dean (Will Smith) is a lawyer who finds himself accidentally wrapped up in a conspiracy to protect the NSA. Other to…

Bob and Dan watch Robert Altman's anti-Western, McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971). The film is about a pair of professional brothel owners building up an entire town around their business before a mining…

Bob and Dan invite screenwriters Hannah Schneider and Nelson Greaves back to the show to discuss everyone's favorite Michael Bay film, Armageddon (1998). Armageddon follows the amazing true story of …

Bob and Dan discuss Joon-ho Bong's Memories of Murder (2003), a South Korean film about detectives tracking a serial killer. Other topics covered: how to get away with murder, Silence of the Lambs, s…

Bob and Dan discuss Sam Fuller's The Steel Helmet (1951), a war drama about a group of US soldiers in the Korean War who end up defending a Buddhist Temple/lookout post from the enemy. Other topics d…

Bob and Dan discuss Luis Buñuel's Los Olvidados (1950), a Mexican film about the demoralizing effects of poverty. Other topics discussed: abstract film, dream sequences, Jewish last names, and feral …

Bob and Dan discuss Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows (1955), a film about a widow who falls in love with her young gardener much to the dismay of her family and friends. It's a melodrama with th…

Bob and Dan discuss the bleakest crime drama ever made, Get Carter (1971). When Carter, a professional killer played by Michael Caine, finds out his brother died in a drunk driving accident, he suspe…

Bob and Dan welcome Michael Molina (Trivia Night) to discuss Wake in Fright (1971), an Australian film about a school teacher who tries to take a trip to Sydney but gets stuck in a mining town for a …

Bob and Dan discuss Nicholas Ray's In A Lonely Place (1950), a film about a screenwriter who is accused of murder. Other topics discussed: the movie Adaptation, bitch slapping Jeff Sessions, and how …

Bob and Dan discuss Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973), a Philip Marlowe noir that turns the genre on its head. Marlowe wakes up in the middle of the night to a hungry cat, and a good friend who…

Bob and Dan argue over John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), a sci-fi horror based on a short story and the 1951 Howard Hawks movie The Thing From Another World (which we covered in our very first episo…

Bob and Dan discuss Red River (1948), a Howard Hawks western about a cattle drive that goes horribly wrong thanks to the tyrannical behavior of the drive's leader played by John Wayne. Other topics d…

Bob and Dan discuss John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), a film about police officers and criminals surviving a night inside a soon-to-be-closed precinct house as it gets bombarded by a ga…

Bob and Dan discuss Robert Aldrich's Attack! (1956), a World War II movie about American soldiers turning on their own captain because of his cowardly behavior. Is it blasphemy? The US Military thoug…

Bob and Dan discuss Freaks (1932), a film that takes a behind-the-scenes look at a traveling circus/freak show. It's the movie that defined the 60s (even though it came out in the 30s). Other topics …

Bob and Dan talk with screenwriter Nelson Greaves about Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957), a film about a team of scientists who attempt to rescue other scientists from a mysterious island inhabited…

Bob and Dan discuss Across 110th Street (1972), a gritty film about the Italian mafia picking a fight with the black mafia in Harlem over a robbery committed by a few amateur criminals. Topics discus…